A better way to share photos … wonder if PhotoRocket will be anything like this

I take and share hundreds of photos a week. They are all loaded onto the
Mac, edited and then distributed using Facebook, email, Twitter, Flickr,
various web sites and occasionally on CD-ROM. I also frequently get
requests from people to send them the original. All this takes time and
there’s no easy record of what has been shared with whom. So over the
past couple of years I’ve been thinking about creating a new way to
share photos that would be easier for my situation and here’s my
concept:-

In iPhoto (or any other photo management application) simply tag the
photo with the email address (or group name) of the people you want to
share it with!

Yes, that’s it! That’s all you would need to do to share an image with
someone.

What happens behind the scenes is more interesting …

The sharing software makes a regular sweep over the iPhoto library and
finds any newly tagged photos with email addresses or group names on
them. If then looks up each individual and your preferred method of
reaching them (email, Facebook, …) and it delivers the pictures to
them. A management screen allows you to define groups and to manage the
list of people with whom you share photos. For each person or group you
can define how to reach them (Facebook, Twitter, email, Flickr, web
site, CD-ROM, …) and you can also set a limit on how large a photo to
send them and a limit on how many to send per day. Thus for a friend on
a slow connection you might chose to only email them a medium sized
version and limit it to one per day. They would thus get a daily email
from you every day until all the photos tagged with their name (or a
group that they belong to) have been delivered to them. It would also
enable you to easily set up a photo of the week post to Facebook and to
queue up images for future picture of the week posts.

I think this approach would be much easier than my current photo sharing
process. Thoughts? Comments?

I also see that a local startup PhotoRocket
has announced plans to revolutionize how we share photos. I wonder if
there are any similarities between my ideas and what they are planning
… we shall see soon.